xbox took the nintendo 64 game banjo kazooie and made it an arcade game so im wondering if this would be possible for the first two fallouts
i started on fallout3 and think it would open up some of the story line if i were to play the first two

Use that PC you're on to play them.

This. Believe it or not, you don't need a top of the line PC to play the first two Fallout games, and you can get them for a relatively low price ($5.99) at Good Old Games.

Besides, it would be up to Interplay to do something like this.

Bethesda has the rights to the franchise, but Interplay still controls distribution of the originals.

Despite me having a PC one million times better than needed to run the games, I agree it would be awesome to have them on Xbox Arcade or Playstation Network, so let's ease up on him about that.

The truth is that it is very possible... see Monkey Island or Sam and Max, a mouse pointer controled game works fine on Xbox and they should be quick ports, mostly. That said, since it is Interplay we are dealing with, it is unlikely to happen. They have no money, and while the port would be somewhat easy, it would still require testing, Microsoft certification, some basic development and graphical artistry... in the end, despite being somewhat a cheap thing to do, I doubt Interplay can spare the resources.

I would say we would be better off with Bethesda at the helm, but since they have shown no interest in rereleasing their older Elder Scrolls games, and have in fact instead just given them away on PC for free, I don't think they would do anything different with Fallout.

You never know though... keep talking about it and letting the companies know there is a market for it. Now that PC genres and series are on consoles there is probably a lot of people who would enjoy playing the older games they never got on their Super Nintendo... Half-Life, Baldurs Gate, Daggerfall, Fallout... I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often. The original PC-only Call of Duty is coming to Xbox Arcade soon... maybe that will set a precedent.

well the pc versions of the first two games are going to get harder and harder to acquire and plus it would be much easier to jus download it right onto your xbox with microsoft points than to have to go ebay hunting for it

You can get them on GOG.com... $5.99 a piece, and downloadable forever.

And up to just recently the Fallout Trilogy recently put out by Interplay was in the top 10 bestseller list.

This will NEVER happen besides the originals are cheap and have relitivly low requariments for an average computer.

With the PSN getting an HD remake of Digger, anything is possible.

Well, Top-Down RPGs don't lend themselves too well to anything but Portable consoles and PCs. There isn't enough buttons on the 360 controller for ADOM or NetHack (unless you have that little mini keyboard), same for FallOut 1 and 2.

I just got the Fallout Trilogy I ordered from Amazon today. Cheap, fun, and runs well :tops: .

I honestly can't picture Fallout 1 & 2's controls translating well on a gamepad.

I don't see why...

You can play all of Fallout 1 and 2 perfectly fine with nothing but your mouse. There are a whopping three buttons on a mouse (counting the scroll wheel.) There's how many buttons on a modern-day console controller?

EDIT - This is off the top of my head for a button layout - it took me more time to write this than it did to think of it:

• A Button - Left Click
  
• B Button - Right Click
  
• X Button - Swap Weapons
  
• Y Button - Leave/ Enter Combat
  
• Left Thumbstick - Move cursor
  
• L3 - Doubles as Left Click
  
• Right Thumbstick - Scroll the map
  
• R3 - Bring up right-click menu (or possibly SkillDex)
  
• Back - Pip-Boy Menu
  
• Start - Game Menu
  
• L1 and R1 - Cycle through hotpots on the menu
  
• L2 - ?
  
• R2 - ?
  
• D-pad - Left and Right cycle through attacks modes, Up swaps your weapons, Down cycles aiming on and off.

All those buttons other than A and B are just extras anyway - like I said, you could play Fallout 1 and 2 just fine using only a mouse. But there's more than enough buttons on there to provide all the necessary shortcuts anyway, just to make navigating the game a bit quicker.

And frak, I'm on the side that still says it's never going to happen, I just don't think it's worth their time. (Besides, I still own my original copies - I'm not going to buy a game twice just because they put it out on XBox Live.) But certainly it could be done.

See, this is where your problem is.

From a business perspective you think Interplay would at least try to do it seeing as how it would sell half decent based on Fallout 3 alone.

Interplay arent allowed to release as much as a patch, unless Bethesda OK's it.

Interplay's current FO1/2/Tactics rights are just to sell, not to modify.

Well that svcks.

Besides, it does seem like they're selling pretty well on PC. (I'm not sure, but it seems like even GOG downloads and such probably see a bit of that money going to Interplay.) This is probably more income than they've seen in some time. They'd probably be able to sell a bit more if it were available on XBL, but even if they were allowed to do so - there's also the question about how much it would cost them to port it out; and if the extra sales would really be enough to warrant that expenditure.

I mean, these days if you can get online to post on a forum about a XBL release of Fallout 1 and 2, then it probably means you have acess to a computer that would run those games well enough. I played those games back in the day on a Texas Instrument laptop. It wasn't much more than a glorified calculator/ word processor. I still have it around and it can't even process half the sites on the internet these days - but it ran Fallout 1 and 2 decently enough - if very slowly (and the refresh rate was so slow that all I could effectively play on it were turn-based games, because the ghosting was so bad.)

i think it would be cool but i am buying them for pc

Of course they do. Why else would they license them out to GOG?

Well, that's what I figured, but I don't have a very good head for business.

My guess is this is probably more income than Interplay's been able to generate in some time. (Again, though - I wouldn't really know...)

Thing is, a lot of console gamers just REFUSE to game on a PC, even a 10 year old game that would run well on a cheap laptop. PCs just don't equal gaming for a TON of console gamers, and thus I think Fallout and Fallout 2 would sell well on Xbox, if for no other reason than 5 million Fallout 3 fans wanting to see what they were like.

I agree it will almost certainly never happen, I'm just speaking in generals.

That would be ignorance, the PC has been a gaming platform since the Commodore 64 days. I can understand console gamers preferring to play on a console, that's a fair stance, but refusing to play a game on the PC no matter what is extremely narrow minded and I don't think those folks should be rewarded for thinking as such. Guys like that are the same as PC Elitists, except they're on the opposite side of the spectrum.

If there's a console game I want to play bad enough, I'll buy the console if there's other decent looking titles on it. A PC (one that can run Fallout especially) is a household commodity these days, most folks have one. It's not that hard to get your hands on the classic Fallout titles; there's two different websites to purchase and digitally download them, and they've been re-released into retail stores.

For a loooong time, and still today in a lot of respects, PC gaming and console gaming are two different cultures. The games were so different in style, tone and gameplay before the Xbox that it made a lot of sense for people to be one or the other. I know I personally never played a console until the Xbox came out.

Now that the platforms have merged quite a bit, it makes sense for older PC games to be released on consoles for console-only games to experience them.